Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
A WEEK after the Bahrain Grand Prix, the excitement has died down and life has returned to normal in the sunny Kingdom of Bahrain. It's back to school, back to work, back to the numerous decisions we have to make.
Being in Sixth Form, all of us are considered to be focused, driven students with a passion to lead and succeed. We have high expectations to live up to and even higher hurdles to jump over.
Yet, not all of us have definite goals; we still don't have visions of working in a starched white coat or sitting in a swivelling chair at a desk with a gold name plaque on it and a leather briefcase.
A couple of my friends, with hardly a year left to graduate, are stressing over their career paths which is destined to shape their life and future. They are all smart, responsible and creative individuals that any university would eagerly offer a seat too.
However, picking a life track is harder than it looks and it is much more than jabbing random options on a piece of paper with your eyes closed.
Naturally, such a life-altering decision is hard to come to a consensus on. As a result, there's a lot of scribbling down of lists, jotting down interests on scraps of paper and highlighting possible professions on job catalogues with a luminous green marker.
Being 16, or sometimes even younger, it is a difficult decision to make, to decide the direction you want your life to go.
Sure, we all want to be rich and famous, with a three-storey mansion, a red Mercedes convertible and a sculpted fountain in the middle of a well-manicured lawn - but how much work are we willing to put in? How hard are we going to strive? Those are questions whose answers will probably shape your decision.
More than making the decision, the final decision is the most imperative. You can take your time with choosing a goal but you need it to be the right one for you. Choose a path that you see yourself committed too, something long term and something you will always enjoy.
In the First Grade, when asked: "what you want to be when you grow up?" there were all kinds of answers - firemen, artists, pilots, actresses, chefs - and we could change them every week.
But it's not First Grade anymore and we can't change our minds, so this time when you pick a final career, an achievable aim - make it good ... and make it really count.
